Thu.Jan 24, 2019

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Where Did All the Candidate Managers Go?

The Whiteboard

Many of us would have started out our recruitment life as candidate managers/sourcing specialist/talent finders or any semantical variation of the former. It’s a tried and tested path trodden by many a recruiter with airtight logic; learn the market from the candidates. As a junior consultant, there is an obvious aversion to asking a client to break down an acronym or some subject-specific lexis because it goes against our consultant commandments “thou shalt faketh till maketh.

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Walk a Mile in the Candidate’s Shoes: Know How Jobseekers Find Your Company

Recruiting Daily Advisor

You know how important the candidate experience is to the overall recruiting process, so what are you doing to help improve that experience? One way to know whether you’re providing a favorable experience is to walk a mile in the candidate’s shoes. Source: spukkato / iStock / Getty. How are jobseekers finding your company? How are they applying to your company?

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How an Influencer Program can Upgrade Your Social Recruiting Strategy

Rally Recruitment Marketing

Happy New Year, Rally Community! I’m kicking off this blog post a bit different this go-around by asking for a quick favor. Can you grab your cell phone for me? Got it? Okay. If it took less than 30 seconds for that glorious gadget full of pictures, text messages, emails and thousands of apps you rarely use to find its way into the palm of your hand, then the chances are high that you’re on your phone all the time.

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ClearCompany Launches Bi-Directional Connector for ADP Workforce Now

ClearCompany Recruiting

In expansion to their partnership, ClearCompany has launched the first Bi-Directional Connector for ADP Workforce Now. The bi-directional connector between ClearCompany’s Talent Suite and ADP Workforce Now allows organizations to effortlessly synch both employee and organizational data across the two platforms while creating up-to-date data in an instant.

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Modernizing Hiring: The Rise of Contingent Recruitment in 2024

The job market is changing fast, and to stay ahead, your hiring strategy needs to be flexible. With recent economic shifts, more companies are turning to contingent workers for their adaptability and cost savings. In fact, 32% of businesses are already prioritizing contingent over traditional full-time positions. Curious to learn more? In our new guide, you'll discover: The major benefits of incorporating contingent workers into your team.

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What Recruiters and Marketers Need to Know to Land a Recruitment Marketing Job

Rally Recruitment Marketing

If you’re reading this, you likely know that Recruitment Marketing is an exciting space to work in for a number of reasons: Recruitment Marketing is still relatively new for most organizations, which means that many functions, programs and strategies are being built from the ground up. It’s fun to get in at that stage! Further to that, there are also huge strides being made every year to move the discipline forward.

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Rise in ‘hip’ jobs over the past four years

Social Talent

The rise of hipster culture has driven a surge in job opportunities in the last four years, according to new data from Indeed. But, you probably never heard of it, right? . The ‘hipster’ community has moved from the ‘alternative’ sidelines to a mainstream social group, so that an entire ‘hipster service economy’ has sprung up to cater to its tastes, while jobs once seen as the preserve of hipsters have crossed into the corporate sphere.

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IR35 and the Private Sector: 3 Actions You Should Take Now

Allegis Global Solutions

IR35 is legislation designed to assess the tax status of contractors operating via a limited company. The legislation is a series of tests that determine who should be classed as and, most importantly, taxed like a permanent employee of their end client. Basically, if you are a limited company contractor, working very much like a permanent employee of your client as opposed to having more of a business-to-business relationship, then Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs (HMRC) sees it that you shoul

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How to Turn Employees into Employer Brand Ambassadors?

TalentLyft

Your best employer brand ambassadors are your employees. They are the most trusted source of truth about how your company works. If you want to tell the story of your company, they are your best storytellers. Learn how to encourage them to share a compelling story about your company and help you recruit top talent! Read More.

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It's Official: Lever is Opening in Toronto

Lever

and we think we're going to love it there!

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Hiring for Culture Fit: Align Your Values, Roles and Candidates

Speaker: Dr. Craig Ellis, Head of I-O Psychology, HighMatch

Is the term “culture” just a buzzword tossed around at your organization, or have you delved into the core values and behaviors that truly define a good fit for your company? In this webinar, Dr. Craig Ellis, an I-O Psychologist, will share a proven framework to identify the essential traits that contribute to a seamless fit within your unique culture, not just in your current successful employees but also in prospective candidates.

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5 Things a CV Won’t Tell You About a Candidate

Undercover Recruiter

Most recruitment processes will start with potential candidates sending through their applications or CVs, and as a recruiter, it’s part of your role to screen the responses and pinpoint the most suitable applicants. However, you could be missing out on some great candidates if you’re focusing solely on a candidate’s CV and not delving deeper. View Article. 5 Things a CV Won’t Tell You About a Candidate Undercover Recruiter - Recruiting & Talent Acquisition Blog.

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A Conference That Puts Ideas Into Action: Transform Live is Back!

Symphony Talent

One of the benefits (or downsides, depending on how you look at it) of my job is that I get to experience a lot of talent acquisition conferences. The post A Conference That Puts Ideas Into Action: Transform Live is Back! appeared first on SmashFly Blog.

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How to Make Your Phone Your Friend Again

FireFish Software

Whilst social selling, networking and emailing often leads to new business in recruitment, our phones are still our biggest weapons – provided we know how to use them! But canvassing for new business is still an agency recruiter’s toughest challenge and rejection will always be a necessary evil of the job, so it’s easy to fall out of love with your phone when you’re having little success using it.

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How to Recognize a Strong Work Ethic?

TalentLyft

Recognizing a strong work ethic is a key for differentiating top performers from average job candidates. Candidates with extensive relevant experience and the right skills won’t be an asset for your company unless they exhibit a strong work ethic. Learn the most effective ways to recognize a strong work ethic in your candidates! Read More.

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AI & DEI: With Great Opportunities Comes Great HR Responsibility

Speaker: Jen Kirkwood - Partner, Responsible HR & AI at IBM and World Economic Forum Executive Fellow

The promise of AI for today’s organizations is real, yet in a frenzied state of experimentation, many stumble to get to a full-scale enterprise. As companies race to discover what generative AI can do, HR must lead conversations about how to balance cutting-edge innovations with integrity, trust, and diversity. Globally, organizations are at a critical intersection of Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and AI acceleration.

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How to Write a Job Description Which Attracts High-quality Applicants

Hundred5

For most of the candidates applying to your job opening, your job ad will be the first point of contact they have with your company. Needless to say, you should put maximum effort in making your job ads and job descriptions stand out. However, many job descriptions simply fail to attract candidates – they’re either boring, outdated, irrelevant or plain wrong for the position.

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How Utilizing a Well Networked Recruiter Helps Your Company

NPA Worldwide

For the past few years, the recruiting landscape is more competitive than we have seen it in years, so if you’re an employer you are already restructuring to make recruiting one of the top priorities this year. This can be your year for change and growth, and a well networked recruitment agency can make this happen while saving you both time and money.

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HTML interview questions

Workable

Use these HTML interview questions to test candidates’ knowledge on HTML. When and how you should test candidates’ HTML skills. A good knowledge of HTML is usually required in roles like Web Developer , Front-End Developer and UI Engineer. If candidates don’t have enough experience in this markup language, they might not be able to do their job properly.

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10 Surprising Ways to Improve Daily Workflow

Namely - Talent

Businesses and organizations are challenged daily to do more, plan more, and accomplish more tasks. Psychologists spend hours studying ways to improve daily workflow, and some of what they’ve found is surprising.

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Early Tenure Turnover: Stop the Revolving Door of Hires

Speaker: Dr. Craig Ellis, Head of I-O Psychology, HighMatch

Are you facing a revolving door of hires, especially within their first 90 days of employment? In this webinar, Dr. Craig Ellis, a leading industrial-organizational (I-O) psychologist, offers insights and strategies to unravel the mystery behind early tenure turnover. Identify the root causes of early attrition to mitigate turnover’s impact in the first 12 months.

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How to choose the right applicant tracking system (ATS) for you

Blue Octopus

The right applicant tracking system (ATS) could change your life. Well, your working life at the very least. It sounds like a bold claim, but the tools and features a modern ATS can offer you are wide-ranging, extremely useful and can truly revolutionise your recruitment processes and beyond. But how do you choose the right ATS for you and your business?

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The Gig Economy Is Growing Because It Has No Other Choice

Recruiter

According to gig economists interviewed in the Wall Street Journal, we were all wrong. Blinded by the shine and rapid rise of Uber and Lyft, the general public and even the experts overestimated the impact of gig-work companies and the numbers they were doing. "The gig economy is actually slowing down," the experts now say. "Not that many people are actually doing gig work," they lament.

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Engagement, data, bad/good managers, and the recruiting function

Recruiting Daily

Amy Leschke-Kahle, the VP of Performance Acceleration at The Marcus Buckingham Company (which was acquired by ADP in 2017), gave us some of her precious Milwaukee-area time (Go Bucks! Giannis!) to discuss issues of engagement and data. We wanted to come in hot on this one, so we led with a rather-direct question. How do […].

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HR’s Guide to the Form W-2

Namely - Talent

If you’ve been in HR for any number of years, you know year-end payroll can be a challenge. Much of that is due to the the Form W-2, formally known as the IRS Wage and Tax Statement. Don't scratch your head just yet. This guide breaks down everything you and your employees need to know to have a smooth filing season.

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Managing Your Recruitment Agency Spend in 2024

Feeling overwhelmed by a juggling act of internal recruiting, agency relationships, and direct hire spend? You’re not alone. In today’s competitive talent landscape, building a dream team requires strategic orchestration. Recruiting agencies and search firms provide invaluable services, but managing them effectively alongside your internal team can pose unique challenges.

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9 Self-Assessment Examples to Help You Prove Your Worth

Recruiter

The annual self-assessment is an important component of the performance management process. It gives you a chance to reflect on your biggest successes and failures and discuss your career and future with your manager. Self-assessments can also strongly impact your standing in the organization. They go into your employee file, which is likely to be reviewed by company executives, HR professionals, and other managers in the company.

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5 All-Time Best Recruitment Tools For Hiring

Recruit CRM

Technology will continue to transform and disrupt the way professional recruiters work this year. Job Boards have made candidate sourcing a lot easier but at the same time, competition between recruiters has also increased dramatically. Using the right tools to manage candidates has become more important today than ever before. Recruitment tools can be classified into two types: Tools that help with sourcing and tools that help with candidate relationship management (CRM).

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Make Your Annual Review Process Better With These Nine Tactics

Forbes Human Resources Council

While today's workplaces are shifting toward continual, informal employee feedback, annual reviews are still crucial for understanding and formally documenting how employees are performing.

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By the Numbers January 25, 2019

BountyJobs

BountyJobs Bites. Soft Skills Trump Others for Employers. The Numbers: While technological skills are critical in today’s employment market, soft skills are what employers are valuing most, per a poll from Cengage. 73% of employers are facing obstacles when trying to find qualified candidates, while 65% of employers cite soft skills at the top of their list.

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Future-proof your I-9 compliance for 2024

Speaker: Join I-9 Experts:

Got I-9 compliance on your mind? Spending endless amounts of time ensuring you stay compliant? Get your questions answered with an expert panel from WorkBright. During this one-hour webinar, Workbright will dive deep into I-9 best practices, navigate the nuances of the new 2023 'alternative procedure,' and learn actionable ways to ensure your audit trail is squeaky clean.

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Recruiting AI Talent: 4 Ways To Get Ahead Of The N

Forbes Human Resources Council

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Do words perpetuate biases unconsciously through recruiters?

Recruiting Daily

Taking off the blinders As kids, we often heard, “Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me.” And sure, this might be considered a decent way of reframing childhood bullying at the moment, but it’s problematic in the long run. By completely overlooking the lingering impact of verbal insults and […].

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The 6 Best Countries to Live in: User-Friendly Places to Move to in 2019

Jobbatical

On today’s talent-controlled job market, skilled professionals can live pretty much anywhere they want. And they know it. So countries, just like businesses, have to go the extra mile to keep top talent happy. . To find the best countries to live in today, Jobbatical looked at some global rankings that reveal the most forward-thinking, user-friendly places.